On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 01:11:55PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > First, we need new syntax to specify the architectures an arch:all > package may be built on. (There may be cases where this cannot be > deducted from the other binary packages it builds – if any. Heck, > there may even be cases where a source package has multiple arch:all > packages that need to be built on *different* architectures.) > > Then we need to have this syntax supported by dpkg in stable, AIUI… Yo, tg, I was going to send a mail about this yesterday. I've decided I'm going to start a quest to support this. I settled on Build-Indep-Architecture myself. Anyway, dpkg doesn't need to be involved besides not choking on the d/control line. We can just change wanna-build, debile and launchpad to pass --arch-all to sbuild[1], which sbuild totes already supports. The launchpad team seems willing, and i've not talked with wanna-build, but I'm sure they're up for it. BTW; the syntax would define a single arch; you know, in the spirit of reproducability. Someone willing to take this work up from me would clear my plate up to do other thing, but it's something I want to see :) Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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